HISTORY 152A Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Cuban Missile Crisis, Nuclear Arms Race, Ebeye Island
4 Dec 2017
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13: home land (in)security: the labor of u. s. Cold war military empire in the marshall islands by. Cold war insecurity in the marshall islands: president kennedy working to negotiate resolution to cuban missile crisis, repercussions of nuclear arms race threatened to penetrate security of. American domestic life: meanwhile, marshallese colonial subjects within u. s. empire already coping w/ U. s. started nuclear testing in northern marshall islands. Helped justify imperial expansion into and destruction and contamination of marshall islands: since early 1960s, u. s. scientists and engineers have migrated to kwajalein to analyze data on missiles. Relocated families: marshallese workers are commuters. Ferried daily from nearby island of ebeye to help maintain american domestic life on kwajalein: knowledge focused on by scholars when studying military industrial complex after wwii. Largely ignored role of construction for white-collar workers, and spatial transformations that took place to house workforces.
